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...kind, whether we are talking about sex offenders or illegal tobacco sellers, society has an obligation to protect itself -- and to protect the rights of the accused.
That’s the essence of what life in America is supposed to be all about. When it comes to sex offenders, however, we are failing shamefully and disgracefully on both counts – and it doesn’t have to be this way. I am neither a lawyer nor a criminologist.
What I do know, however, is that before you can craft a solution for any problem, you have to know what you are trying to do.
Job one should be to protect people from predators – and especially to protect children from pederasts. A sex offender registry won’t do that.
Matter of fact, I can think of few things more stupid and un-American. What such lists do is lump child rapists with teenage boys who had consensual sex with their slightly younger girlfriends.
What these lists are is an invitation to vigilante violence and an invitation to treat people as subhumans. Besides, countless cases of wrong addresses appear.
What if I buy a house from someone on the list? I will be instantly classified as a pervert by the neighbors, who have heard that a sex offender lives at my address.
Here’s what we need to do. Bring back the concept of criminal insanity. People who are a danger to children should be locked up, in a mental institution, for as long as they are a danger. You don’t see society rushing to release John Hinckley, the man who shot......

...How can we explain conformity?
Draw on at least two examples
Scott and Marshall (2005) explain conformity with people’s attempts on complying with other’s norms and rules in order to fulfill their expectations. But is it really that simple? Conformity is one of these terms in sociology that have too much different tones and shades, and thus requires deep examination. This essay looks at in detail at a number of classical studies on the subject of conformity as well as it analyzes a particular type of conformity, i.e. gender conformity. Examples and case studies given from both academic experiments and everyday life help this essay in arguing that conformity is a complex process happening to all of us most of the time even without our knowledge. Moreover, this essay provides information about why people actually conform.
Every person is an individual. However, every person belongs to a group. The nationality of a person, their sex, their age, the colour of their skin, and even their hobbies are all different kinds of groups to which this person belongs to. Group membership helps building a type of social identity, while applying its norms and rules upon the individual (Brown 2000). Moreover, even in cases in which a clear hierarchy and roles are absent because of the instant development of the group, social influence remains existent. Social influence definition given by Allport (1968) is as it follows, ‘an attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling,......

...HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR POLITICAL CULTURE
Political culture is referred to what people believe and feel about the government, and how they think people should act towards it, and to understand the relationship of a government to its people and how those people are going to act towards that government and others.
Political culture is important because it establishes against which politics unfold. It covers the:
1. Obligations of the government
2. The relationship between government and the people
3. The rights and responsibility of the people
4. The limits on governmental authority
They have been for sometime we say that all politicians lie and that none can be trusted. Politics and Politicians are most hated by us because they intend to distance themselves when certain problem arises.
We need to change how politicians do politics. They think they are doing more good than than harm. As we know it is impossible to get both the parties to combine as one, but if they could I know for sure that this society would be better, although everyone wants to be a leader. But above all that they campaign, bargain, organize, and do all types of work of making phone calls, making promises of fixing roads, bridges, market places, decrease of crime getting jobs and more.
Secondly we need to consider getting more police personnel in the streets, and mostly at the schools. Nowadays the children are bringing all sorts of weapons to school to hurt each other. So the police......

...Environment - how can you help to protect it?
Environment is an important part of human life and a healthy environment is a must for human existence. Therefore, it is crucial that we take care of our surroundings and help nature maintain ecological balance so that we could hand over to the coming generations the environment as we found it, if not any better. Our planet is changing. There are a lot of things that affect our planet in a bad way but the good news is that everyone can help to reduce them and do their bit for the environment. While exploring six important topics that affect our community : Electricity (Energy), Pollution, Food, Water, Rubbish, Rainforest, I'll present the damage and a list of ways that we can all contribute to help our planet get better. 1. Electricity Energy is everywhere. We use energy to move the mouse for a computer, to jump and shout and walk and run. It takes energy to power a light bulb, and the light that the bulb gives off is also a form of energy. Other forms of energy include heat, chemical energy, gravitational energy and nuclear power. Electricity is a form of energy and this is what powers the TV, the kettle, dishwasher, hairdryer, toaster, remote control, mobile phone, fridge, stereo, electric toothbrush, and more. Our growing need for energy is one of the problems facing the world today, because producing electricity also produces our next topic - pollution. How to help? When you’re using electricity think about where it comes......

...How Can We Rid Childhood Obesity?
Childhood obesity is a pandemic that has reached worldwide distribution. A problem as rampant as this is having a direct negative correlation with education and the way kids learn in America. “More than one third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). For the next generation to succeed and someday be responsible for many of the leadership roles that run this country, there needs to be immediate action. Childhood obesity has a negative effect on development on education, it’s time to start educating children on the many ways to make healthy decisions that will ultimately come back and benefit the education system and learning process itself.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention classifies childhood obesity as a disease and psychological disorder meaning that it directly affects brain function. A child being overweight is classified as a body mass index at or higher than the eighty-fifth percentile and lower than the ninety-fifth percentile for those among the same age and sex. For childhood obesity, it is classified as a body mass index at or higher than the ninety-fifth percentile among the same ages and sexes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). One without any knowledge or background of public health can conclude that if obesity directly affects brain function, that it must also affect leaning in school. According to Juliette Kellow’s research, the performance of...

...Betty Waltermire
Critical Issues in Criminal Justice JUS-250
April 10, 2014
Cruel and Unusual Punishment or Effective Control of Sex Crimes
In the Bill of Rights we look to the Eighth Amendment to read; Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Excessive or disproportionate to the offense committed. A male who has been charged with and convicted of multiple sexual crimes, is going to do his time, get out of prison and offend again. To impose upon him to be chemically or surgically castrated would this procedure stop or prevent the sexual crimes from occurring.
In China and the ancient world the rulers kept many wives and concubines so they would have an heir. To protect them from being impregnated by another male they used eunuchs to guard the wives and concubines. They were appointed to guard the royal household and through daily contact with the family they gained immense power (Chinese Eunuchs). According to legend castration has been used to improve the effectiveness of soldiers. The rulers would castrate the men by removing the penis and leaving the testicles. This would cause them enormous sexual frustration and they would become violent and aggressive, which was perfect for the battlefield.
Chemical castration is done by injection of the FDA approved birth control drug Depo Provera to lower the testosterone levels in men, thereby......

...Sex Offender
Minority in Criminal Justice
February 6, 2012
Submitted by:
Sherry Gadson
Instructor Shawnna Williams
Abstract
Growing up never knowing the different cases of sex offenders, became astonishing to me. I was surprise when I heard about A person that I grew up with was on television for committing a sexual assault on a minor. This same person grew up with my nephew Tory. Throughout the years, growing up this person became a problem with the law from teenage to adult years. He has been charge with several crimes. You would think having to be incarcerated for more than five years at a time one will learn what is best for them. However, it is hard to know what one goes through in their mind. It could have been something he has witness or even went through as a child. One thing for sure is we know he has a problem with society
A sex offender (also sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who committed a sex crime, although what constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, offenses include child sexual abuse, downloading child pornography, rape, and statutory rape. In much of the United States, public urination, mooning, streaking, and the failure to prevent one's own teenage children from engaging in otherwise consensual sexual activity also, result being designated as a sex offender, requiring registration as such in publicly available, online lists. The term sexual predator is often used......

...How can we define ethics?
What does ethics mean to you? Many years ago, a psychologist posed this question to a group of business people. To his surprise many of them had a wrong idea or were not sure of their own answers. Nowadays we are faced with a society that hardly knows or understands what this word means. Some people think that ethics has to do with what their feelings tell them is right or wrong, others take ethics as being a religious idea and belief, or something that the law requires. Many others think that it is a standard of behaviors that our society accepts. But what does ethics really mean, and why is it so important for everyone to understand? Due to a lack of ethics many business leaders have failed.
In the year 2000, the nation of Peru faced a terrible fraud with Vladimiro Montesinos, who was the long-standing head of Peru’s intelligence service, under President Alberto Fujimori. Secret videos which he had recorded were televised. These videos showed his bribing an elected congressman to leave the opposition and join the Fujimori’s side of congress. These accusations and scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and accelerated the resignation of Fujimori. Following investigations revealed Montesinos to be at the center of an enormous net of illegal activities, including embezzlement, graft, gunrunning, and drug trafficking. Montesinos has been tried, convicted and sentenced for numerous charges. “He also had strong connections with the CIA, the......

...In 2000, President George Bush signed into law the no child left behind act. This act was supposed to help get children caught up to grade level math, reading, and science test scores. After 12 years about 82 percent of all the nations’ schools are considered to be failing academically (Dillon).What is a failing school? A failing school is a school where the majority of its students failed to do well on standardized tests that were provided during the school year. The problem is that these schools are found all over the United States. What can be done? How can we fix these failing schools? Who is to blame? Most people would blame the teacher first and foremost, but I disagree. In this paper I will discuss what we can do to fix schools that are failing academically. I will argue that adding early childhood education classes, changing curriculum, and modifying standardized tests are all effective steps in correcting the problems that failing schools continually face. I will support my argument by using the views of authors such as Alfie Kohn and his ideas of making the curriculum more entertaining to make learning easier, Fred Lunenburg’s ideas that preschool is a critical point to achieve success later on in school, Sam Dillon’s views about how the No child left behind act has hurt more public schools than helped them, and other researchers as well.
One step I feel that could help with fixing schools that are failing academically is by adding free early childhood education......

...Title Page
Research Paper: Molesters and Rapist
Normal people have questions and often ask why a molester becomes a molester and why a rapist becomes a rapist? What goes through their minds’ to make them want to harm children or other people? What kind of help can they get and can they ever be cured? People who become sexual molesters’, predators’’, and rapists’ usually have gone through some type of sexual abuse and/or have been raped as a child. From childhood to adulthood we will see how the abuse that one has went through during childhood and may/can affect them as through adulthood, causing them to become a sexual molester and rapist themselves. Molesting one’s own child/children and family members is called intra-famial. They normally don’t go outside the family because they think that they can persuade the child/children not to report them to the police. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children and they desire children, they usually work very close with kids like at the YMCA, schools, and church. Pedophiles’ normally don’t have children or families. They are sexually violent offenders are the perpetrators who are most violent. My hypothesis is the children who are molested or raped grow up to become molesters and rapists who keep the cycle going, rather than getting help. Children are the main victims in today’s society to molestation and rape, one reason being is that they are the easiest prey to prey on. Molestation and rape can happen anywhere and by......

...Sex Offender Registries and Community Notification Laws:
An Ethical Dilemma
by
Amy Thorson
NW 62-OM
OM 4803 - Organizational Ethics
John Brown University
June 2009
Situation Definition
Introduction of the Facts
Sex offenders in American society are often seen as repulsive, violent individuals that deserve to be feared and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Their crimes are deemed the worst kind of violation of another human being. In fact, “the vehemence of the hatred for sex offenders is unmatched by attitudes to any other offenders” (Logan, 1999). Many state and federal laws have been passed in an effort to protect the public from these predatory sex offenders. The laws are aimed specifically at registering sex offenders, documenting sex crimes, and disseminating this information to the general public. The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act of 1994 requires that all states create registries for individuals convicted of sex crimes against children or any other sexually violent offense (Scholle, 2000). In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed Megan’s Law, which allows each state the discretion to establish criteria for registry disclosure, “but compels them to make private and personal information on registered sex offenders available to the public” (Klaas, 2008). Because many states depend on the federal government for funding of law enforcement programs, non-compliance with these......

...How Having a Child Can Affect College Students
Emily Meyer
Kansas State University
FSHS 302
How Having a Child Can Affect College Students
Everyone looks at college as being the best years of their life. Although for some students it can turn into a living nightmare. About half of the pregnancy within students, with some college education, is unplanned. (Olmstead, Koon, Puhlman, Pasley, and Fincham, 2013, P. 808) While a child can be a great assets to one’s life, for a college student it can be stressful and even difficult for them to learn how to balance their needs with the needs of their child’s. There are many different factors to how a child can affect student’s life in college. These factors include whether or not they return to college, how they will make time to get everything done, stress, how their social life will be effected, how men react to unplanned pregnancy, religion, and also birth control and emergency contraceptives.
Typically a college student, at a university, will take about four years to complete the program and graduate. When faced with the fact that a child is in the student’s life or will be coming into their life it can change the way the student might go about college. For starters the student may want to wait for a couple of years to finish their schooling. This gives the parent some time to concentrate on the child as they are growing up. Although this might seem like a good idea at the time, it can also cause hardships to complete the...

...monitoring released sex offenders have been a problem for many years. This research paper will give insight into the different approaches to tracking and monitoring sex offenders in the community from the local and national sex offender registry to GPS tracking. It also shows the perception of safety in a small scale community. Many laws are set into place to manage sex offenders after they are released from prison, but what is the effectiveness of programs set in place for the safety of victims and the community?
Keywords: sex offenders, monitoring, tracking, registry, residency restrictions, safety
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
United States Sex Offender Laws 4
Sex Offender Registration and Public Notification Laws 4
Megan's Law 4
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) 5
Other Laws 5
Criticism of Registration and Notification Laws 6
Management of Sex Offender Laws 7
Sex Offenders Registration Requirements 7
Sex Offenders Castration 8
GPS Monitoring 8
Residency Restrictions 9
Effects of Registration and Notification 9 Perceptions of Effectiveness 10
Improvement Suggestions 11
Local Survey of Effectiveness 11
Findings of The Medical University of South Carolina 13
Conclusion 13
References 14
Is Tracking Sex Offenders Effective?
Monitoring prosecuted sex offenders......

...almost every single family on our planet. It’s not just an ordinary member, but a very important one, especially too someone who spends a lot of time using the Internet. The Internet is a very useful tool that is used for everything such as advertisement, communication, shopping, researching and also for educational purpose. On the Internet, there’re some websites that needs to be censored in order to protect our children from viewing inappropriate websites that promote drug usage, violence and pornography. Parents and school officials are the first ones who need to begin the process of censoring out those inappropriate websites.
The Internet is an easy way to access all sorts of information. Because the Internet has become so popular in such a short period of time, the opportunity to censor it has passed by almost as quickly as the public discovered its usefulness to our everyday lives. The Internet has some bad source of information that’s not helpful to our kids. Parents and schools officials are the ones who should start the process of censoring those websites that our kids view each and every day of their lives. Because they are ones who know what sorts of information on the Internet that is best for our kids. So that’s why, Internet censorship should be enacted to prevent teenagers from viewing inappropriate websites that promote drug usages, violence and pornography.
The first reason as to why Internet censorship should be enacted is that our teenagers use......

...How can we retain customers?
For a non-profit organization, marketing is quite different from other companies since the limited marketing budget. Creating a professional internet presence such as an official website can be a great help to display the mission and beneficiaries to our customer. As far as I know, the official website of MSC is http://sisterscloset.org. However, when I searched with the keyword “my sister’s closet” in some major searching engines, it’s not easy to see our website. Actually, most of the top links is to http://www.mysisterscloset.com. When I opened the link, which I thought should be the website of MSC, I found out it was a totally different company whose name is also “My sister’s Closet”. It’s also a resale store but it has no mission to provide at-risk, low-income women any help at all. These make me very confuse and I think it will bring the same confuse to the customer who are interesting in us. What we need to do is to specific our name with any other different organizations or companies. For example, we can add a different website logo, or add the words “Monroe County” on our name, or even talk to the other companies to find out a compromise way on this. To the website itself, a better idea to make our customers to check on us is to put some pictures of our inventories. Furthermore, we need to develop a social media marketing strategy. Social media such as Face book, MySpace and Twitter will be a great help to make a connection between we......